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Blue Ribbons Bitter Bread: Joice Loch - Australia’s most heroic woman

Susanna de Vries

An Australian classic describing how an Australian bush girl saved the lives of 1,000 Polish and Jewish children in a daring escape from the Nazis. This updated edition contains an…

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Heroic Australian Women In War

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Profiles the grit, determination and selflessness of 11 outstanding Australian women serving in the two World Wars. This book focuses not only on the outstanding courage these women displayed in…

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The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six Women Who Changed the Course of Australian History

Susanna De Vries

A book that details the life stories of 36 courageous Australian women, who broke down the barriers of prejudice. Featuring heroines such as Mary Penfold, the co-founder of Penfold Wines…

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Historic Sydney

Susanna de Vries

This well-researched handsome book has become an Australian classic. Everyone with an interest in Sydney???s history should possess a copy.

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Nell: The Australian Heiress who Saved he Husband from Stalin & the Nazis

Susanna De Vries

This is the story of an adventuress, Nell Tritton, Brisbane department store heiress, who married former Russian Prime Minister Alexander Kerensky. Stalin and Hitler had Kerensky on their hit list…

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Nell: The Australian Heiress Who Saved Kerensky from Stalin & the Nazis

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Nell Tritton was determined to embrace a life of adventure after her elder siblings died in the 1919 flu pandemic. She became Brisbane’s first female journalist and won prizes for…

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To the Ends of the Earth: Mary Gaunt, Pioneer Traveller

Susanna de Vries

Travel writer, explorer and novelist. ‘Gaunts never give up’, the motto of Mary’s ancestor, Prince John of Gaunt (1340-1399) was quoted by Mary’s father, William Gaunt, to his children. In…

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Royal Mistresses of the House of Hanover-Windsor: Secrets, Scandals and Betrayals

Susanna De Vries

The genuine love match between Prince William and Kate Middleton has rekindled enthusiasm for the British monarchy. In the past, young princes reluctantly made arranged marriages and took mistresses.

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Australian Heroines of World War 1: Gallipoli, Lemnos and the Western Front

Susanna De Vries

This is an updated editon with additional information on some of the nurses supplied by their relatives after they read the first edition.

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Trailblazers: Caroline Chisholm to Quentin Bryce

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Caroline Chisolm’s hard work and determination changed the history of female migration to Australia and ensured better conditions for families on migrant ships and offered them paid work. Eliza Hawkins…

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Nell: The Australian Heiress Who Saved Kerensky from Stalin & the Nazis

Susanna de Vries

Nell Tritton was determined to embrace a life of adventure after her elder siblings died in the 1919 flu pandemic. She became Brisbane’s first female journalist and won prizes for…

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Great Pioneer Women Of The Outback: True Stories of Hardship and Endurance

Susanna De Vries

In the 1800s, the first white farmers and graziers making their homes in the outback were joined by their wives, many of whom had no idea what lay in store…

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To Hell And Back: The Banned Account of Gallipoli’s Horror by Journalist and Soldier Sydney Loch

Susanna De Vries

As a young soldier in the battlefields of Gallipoli, Sydney Loch witnessed the horror of war first hand. His journal of what he saw became a book on his return…

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Royal Marriages: Diana, Camilla, Kate & Meghan and princesses who did not live happily ever after

Susanna De Vries

Those who enjoyed the TV series The Crown will enjoy this entertaining and well-researched book which fills in the background to centuries of arranged royal marriages and the arcane rules…

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Desert Queen: The many lives and loves of Daisy Bates

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Historian Susanna de Vries gives a complex portrait of Daisy Bates: an unconventional, Irish-born and ultimately well known anthropologist, who spent sixteen years living among West Australian indigenous tribes documenting…

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The Complete Book of Heroic Australian Women: Twenty-one Pioneering Women Whose Stories Changed History

Susanna De Vries

Providing inspiration for today’s women, in this book of profiles Susanna de Vries examines what it takes to be a truly heroic Australian. Women of grit and courage, women of…

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Great Australian Women / Great Pioneer Women Of The Outback

Susanna de Vries

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Historic Brisbane

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The book shows the Convict and Officers Barracks and convicts digging roads along what became Queen Street and North Quay. Professional artist Conrad Martens paints the Customs House and Kangaroo…

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Great Australian Women

Susanna de Vries

Author honored with the Order of Australia in 1996 for services to art and literature. Stories of dedicated and resourceful women who demanded something different from the restricted lives of…

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